I've been thinking of using a CMS in the rebuild of our Estate web site (www.pad4u.com), so it was a good time for the article for me.
However I was thinking that in most cases the properties would need to be loaded from an external database (i.e. our estate application in SQL), and therefore the content wouldn't be in Umbraco, and our blog currently is stored in wordpress.
In these circumstances is there advantage in using Umbraco to design the new site. I like the idea of using umbraco, but I'm not sure how much is actually gained in our circumstances of having data not in umbraco?
Hi David, It is possible to develop websites and applications with Umbraco dealing with some content and a third party data source for other components.
If the SQL database is just for the website I would say transfer it into Umbraco using CMSImport. Which will import the data as Umbraco nodes, but if the SQL database is used in a larger use for many other applications at the company then I would consider hooking up Umbraco to read the data from the database.
We have both a sales system and lettings system, that currently get loaded into an access database, which is used by the current website. I'm concerned about the ability to read data and present using Umbraco. Can I still code in aspx? I have a lot of code behind files that I would like to reuse which read data and process form the SQL database, is this possible? Can I still use the datagrid control, etc.?
Hi David if your Access database is just for the website I would say import the data into Umbraco personally, using CMSImport and do it the Umbraco way.
In answer to your other questions:
With Umbraco V4 you can use your existing ASP.NET usercontrols and logic.
You can use existing .aspx pages with Umbraco if you need to.
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I've been thinking of using a CMS in the rebuild of our Estate web site (www.pad4u.com), so it was a good time for the article for me.
However I was thinking that in most cases the properties would need to be loaded from an external database (i.e. our estate application in SQL), and therefore the content wouldn't be in Umbraco, and our blog currently is stored in wordpress.
In these circumstances is there advantage in using Umbraco to design the new site. I like the idea of using umbraco, but I'm not sure how much is actually gained in our circumstances of having data not in umbraco?
Thanks.
Hi David,
It is possible to develop websites and applications with Umbraco dealing with some content and a third party data source for other components.
If the SQL database is just for the website I would say transfer it into Umbraco using CMSImport. Which will import the data as Umbraco nodes, but if the SQL database is used in a larger use for many other applications at the company then I would consider hooking up Umbraco to read the data from the database.
Warren
We have both a sales system and lettings system, that currently get loaded into an access database, which is used by the current website. I'm concerned about the ability to read data and present using Umbraco. Can I still code in aspx? I have a lot of code behind files that I would like to reuse which read data and process form the SQL database, is this possible? Can I still use the datagrid control, etc.?
Hi David if your Access database is just for the website I would say import the data into Umbraco personally, using CMSImport and do it the Umbraco way.
In answer to your other questions:
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